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    "localId": "32763",
    "label": "Gospels with Acts of the Apostles and Epistles",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.525"
}

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    "id": "32763",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.525",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Gospels with Acts of the Apostles and Epistles",
    "description": "This small, densely written volume of the New Testament was evidently made for personal reading. It represents high-level manuscript production in the first decades of the late Byzantine period. ca. 1300. By 1628, it is known to have been in the Chilandari Monastery, or one of its dependencies, on Mount Athos.",
    "provenance": "Chilandari Monastery (or one of its dependencies), Mount Athos, ca. 1628; Léon Gruel, Paris (Gruel no. 1482) [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, by purchase [date of acquisition unknown], Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1300 (late Byzantine)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.525",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.525.binding_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.525.binding_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 16.5,
            "height": 11.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 6 1/2 x W: 4 1/2 in. (16.5 x 11.5 cm)"
}

{
    "style": "Byzantine",
    "med": "ink and pigments on medium-weight, cream-colored parchment covered with brown morocco leather with gilt silver studs along the edges, small gilt silver corner bosses of cherubim, blind-stamped symbols of the Evangelists in neo-Gothic style on both covers, two gilt silver clasps",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
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        "MSS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "358",
        "2016",
        "31",
        "211"
    ]
}

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